Macintosh security is built in, not added as an afterthought. The design of Mac’s OS X made security a top priority and achieved it in many different ways. Larry Loeb gives you an update on some of the ways security has been implemented for Inform IT.
“There are ways that OS X improves on UNIX’s standard security methods,” Larry Loeb writes for InformIT. Loeb explains how in his full article here.
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